Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Mistral Small 3

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #278 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 48.4 to 16.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 6.7% for Mistral Small 3.
  • Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Mistral Small 3
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.131.2
Released2025-07-092025-01-30
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked4824

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Coding14081246
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral Small 3: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
Chess Puzzles28%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091233
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44127.07
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%6.7%
LMArena Math14221240
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
GPQA Diamond87%47.3%
Confabulations12.4%25.2%
LMArena Expert14151202
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral Small 3: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English14031198
LMArena Chinese14271204
LMArena French14181203
LMArena German14291211
LMArena Japanese13941111
LMArena Korean13771188
LMArena Russian14101216
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following13871214
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query14091246
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3
LMArena Text14111234
LMArena Creative Writing13971195
LMArena Multi-Turn14161217
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Mistral Small 3?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral Small 3 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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